Rebecca Hanson

Rebecca Hanson is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies and director of UF's International Ethnography Lab at the University of Florida. 

Her research focuses on policing, politics, and violence in Latin America and the epistemology of qualitative methods. She is the co-author of Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research (University of California Press 2019) and co-editor of The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime, and Policing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2022). Her current book--Policing the Revolution: The Transformation of Security and Violence in Venezuela during Chavismo--is in press with Oxford University Press. 

Her work has been published in academic journals such as Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Politics, Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Forum, and Violence: An International Journal and non-academic outlets, including The Conversation, NACLA, The Christian Science Monitor, and WOLA'S Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights.